Sentences with phrase «who visit patients»

Traveling nursing are contractors who visit patients in a wide range of settings.

She was a highly regarded therapy dog who visited patients in the hospital and in nursing homes.

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Before would - be Lemonaid patients can initiate a visit, they see a list of «who we can't help,» detailing when they should see a doctor in person, said Dr. Davis Liu, head of service development.

It's not just patients who benefit from the convenience of getting medical advice in their homes or offices, or even on the road, all without the cost to the system of an office visit.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

But if he had the charge of a hospital, or lived in a city where the pestilence was raging, if he would be studying fermentation, the circulation of the blood, blisters, and the like, and such like excellent points, when he should be visiting his patients, and saving men's lives; if he should even turn them away, and let them perish, and tell them that he has not time to give them advice, because he must follow his own studies, I would consider that man as a most preposterous student, who preferred the remote means before the end itself of his studies: indeed, I would think him but a civil kind of murderer.

Dear Abby: I had to chuckle at the plea from «Mr. F.J. O «B. from Rochester, N.Y.» who asked that all ministers, rabbis and priests please advise hospital patients in advance of a visit.

«As participation rates in high school athletics continues to rise significantly, it has become increasingly important to establish up - to - date, individualized injury information for high school athletes and their families, who represent a large proportion of patients visiting pediatric orthopaedic and sports medicine clinics.»

Our staff genuinely cares about the men and women who visit VCRM and works hard to give patients the best chance of success.

Citing a 2010 study finding that patients who had at least two 2 rehabilitation visits for persistent dizziness after a concussion showed improvement in their DHI scores (2), the study said that on - field identification of dizziness could lead to earlier implementation of vestibular rehabiliation and other modalities to treat dizziness, which may expedite recovery from concussion.

There is a professionally equipped hairdressing salon area for private hairdressers to use during their patient visits, a massage room, space for alternative therapies, a washer and dryer, and exercise equipment for family members and patients who have their physician's approval.

In the short time you're a patient at Women & Infants, you can expect a variety of people who visit your room to support you during your stay.

To protect patients from illness, anyone who is ill or has been in contact with a contagious disease (such as chicken pox) should not visit until any danger of spreading the infection has passed.

Carol Raphael, President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the state's oldest and largest home care agency, said, «The Visiting Nurse Service of New York applauds Governor Cuomo's call for a thoughtful, collaborative approach to restructuring the State's Medicaid program; we are prepared to work with him and his Administration toward the enactment of policies that focus on coordinating care to the State's most vulnerable patients, who often suffer from multiple complex conditions.»

She said patients who were visiting Puerto Rico or Central and South American countries, where the virus has been spreading, are asking to be tested.

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Erie County and each Mall partner are teaming up with the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health to conduct long - term studies of the health outcomes and health care utilization of patients who visit the Health Mall.

«All trusts should have exemption and concessionary schemes in place to ensure that patients and carers who visit hospital regularly are not disadvantaged.

At the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, Adamawa State, which has about 60 resident doctors, one of our correspondents who visited the facility on Thursday observed as several patients were seen unattended to due to the doctors» strike.

Despite all the recent advances in health care, the doctor's visit itself has hardly changed — patients describe their symptoms to a physician, who conducts a physical exam.

«Any patients who are worried about their treatment should visit their doctor to discuss their concerns,» concluded Andersen.

He unhesitatingly gives his number to every patient who visits, even if he knows it could later wreak havoc with his social life, dinners out with his fiancée, or an ongoing home renovation project back on the Island.

The patient, who recently visited one of the West African nations ravaged by the Ebola outbreak, may put the hospital's new safety protocols to the test.

Virtual Wembury was created by Professor Bob Stone and colleagues at the University of Birmingham, and the fact that only patients who visited Wembury, and not the virtual city, had better experiences than standard care is consistent with a growing body of work that shows that natural environments, and marine environments in particular, can help reduce stress and anxiety.

Patients who had visited a primary care physician or cardiologist in the preceding year were more likely to see a physician after discharge.

Likewise, patients who visit classes consent and waive their right to anonymity.

The study looked at 56 767 patients with chest pain who visited an emergency department in Ontario between April 2004 and March 2010.

Patients with multiple health issues and who are at higher risk of adverse events are less likely to receive follow - up care from a physician after visiting an emergency department for chest pain, reports a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

«One in four patients who visited emergency department for chest pain did not receive follow - up care.»

In all, they found that patients in the two states underwent 20,139 repeat CT scans — meaning that 14.7 percent of those who had a CT scan in their first emergency visit had another one at their second emergency visit at another, unaffiliated hospital within a month.

They contain the names, ages, addresses, family members, and symptoms of the patients who visited him and even the time of day at which he saw them.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — If you lived in the time of Shakespeare and wanted to know whether your sick child was going to make it, you might well have paid a visit to the shady offices of physician - cum - astrologer Simon Forman, who, with his student Richard Napier, advised more than 30,000 patients and clients during their careers.

«To most people, especially ophthalmologists, common sense would suggest that there is little harm in simply measuring the vision at a distance during a patient's routine visit to their primary care physician,» Sommer, who wrote an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine, said by email.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

The findings came from a retrospective study of 84 patients, who received care and moderate sedation during a visit to a Case Western Reserve's dental clinics in endodontics, periodontics and oral surgery graduate programs between 2010 and 2012.

In the study, the researchers randomly collected and analyzed serum samples from 292 patients with chronic HBV infection who visited one of 3 hospitals in Korea from 2003 - 2005.

Ninety percent of patients who visited the smaller satellite hospitals received medication.

The software, called EMcounter, served as an easy form to collect «who, what and when» data for every patient visiting an emergency room.

The study analyzed 210 patients who had visited their doctors with so - called vestibular disorders.

For the viral suppression part of the study, gift cards in the amount of $ 70 were offered to patients who were on HIV treatment and had undetectable virus in their blood at clinic visits.

The Penn Medicine team studied 114 adult patients, 77 women and 37 men, who visited the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for removal of a tip - embedded retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filter between January 2005 and April 2014.

The authors examined three areas to investigate potential challenges to the Medicare ACO model when applied to outpatient care: the proportion of patients assigned to an ACO in one year who remained assigned the next year; the proportion of office visits outside a patient's contracting organization; the proportion of Medicare outpatient spending billed by a contracting organization that is devoted to assigned patients.

After the study, the research team analyzed patients who had follow - up visits with their physician and found that sending at least one text message a day, whether it was a question about symptoms or about asthma in general, improved clinical outcomes.

«What was most surprising was that patients who underwent aggressive treatment for their prostate cancer were more likely to receive routine lab testing and visits with their doctor than those not receiving aggressive treatment.

► In a Tuesday ScienceInsider, Erik Stokstad reported that Paolo Macchiarini, a visiting professor at the Karolinska Institute «who attracted widespread attention for transplanting artificial tracheae into patients — and then faced scientific misconduct charges — has been found not guilty in the first of two investigations into his work.»

From the health system perspective, $ 5,287 would be avoided per DIMM clinic patient over three years, compared to those who visited their primary care provider.

At the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona — one of the few health care organizations in the country to offer patients recordings of office visits — doctors who take part receive a 10 percent reduction in the cost of their medical defense, and $ 1 million extra liability coverage.

«In light of findings from the study, the dental visit could be a useful opportunity to conduct diabetes screening among at - risk, undiagnosed patients — an important first step in identifying those who need further testing to determine their diabetes status,» said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Shiela Strauss, associate professor of nursing and co-director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry.

They found the number of ED visits by patients age 21 and younger for any reason who were diagnosed with addiction or dependency on opioids — which include prescription painkillers as well as illicit drugs such as heroin — rose from 32,235 in 2008 to 49,626 in 2013.

They looked at results from 21,053 patients who visited 1,284 primary care physicians and 291 cardiologists in the five European countries and the U.S.